The Manservant... Plus-2

"The Manservant. Plus-2" brings us three female-led tales of women empowered and the men who find themselves powerless before their new incarnations. Read on, as a middle-aged man in precarious marital and financial shape seeks help from a young female neighbour made financially secure by the loss of her beloved parents. A young female neighbour the older and still good-looking man knows has had a crush on him for some time and will ensure she is all too willing to offer her neighbour a helping-hand in his time of need.
Even if he is not to know she is a young woman with certain demons of her own and the assistance she finally offers will soon reveal itself as less a lifeline and more a life-sentence! An executive husband cheats with his secretary and is discovered by the middle-eastern - and female - CEO of the company employing them. A boss who is very friendly with her former PA who remains her executive's wife.
The same wife her faithless husband persuaded to leave her position that they might try for a family and who, with the help of her former boss who has also become her closest female friend, decides it is the husband who is better suited to a life at home. A domesticated life supervised by both her and that same middle-eastern friend in an arrangement that will be entirely female led. Wrongly accused and imprisoned, divorced from his wife and estranged from his daughters, a former teacher struggles with depression after his release and the knowledge kicks in that he is not only friendless and jobless but about to be made homeless by his local council in London.
Which is when he sees an ad seeking a man for a live-in handyman position in nearby Blackheath. An ad run by a recently made affluent African man and wife who are looking for a man just like him. And on a long-term basis. A man who will be not so much a handyman as a. manservant! Inside you will find: "Venus is Rising" by Ms Omphale; "Taming My Husband" from Maria Wain-Vincent; and Rafael Menton's "The Manservant". Outrageous but believable and contemporary fantasy and female-led fiction, written from a psychological perspective for those readers with a preference for exercising the darker side of the imagination with the help of credible and character-driven plotlines.